The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-04

in favor Of democracy. The south has re
manned solid ever since, in spite Of its divisions
on the tariff and other economic questions.
The men who have been bowling in the Grand
Army of the Republic so loudly against the
president have made the south more solid.
They attack the ex-confederateS, not because
they were "cowardly rebels, " but because they
chose to be democrats. And they make CAPT
tai out of the rebel flag order" to fire the
northern heart" and elect James Ct. Blaine or
some man like him to the presidency.
What these men are after is DOODLE plain
and simple. If to be an ex-confederate was
equivalent to being republican, the battle
nag order would have been Endorsed by every
Grand Army Republic post in the land, as an
instance of magnanimity towards gallant
foe. Had Grover Cleveland been republican
the same result would have followed his &C
ton, law or no law. Fairchild, Tuttle a. GO.
want to use the grand army organizationto put
a republican president in so that such as they
can get the offices. They stand with the I'M
mortal Flanagan, who succlnctly remarked,
"If we are not here for the offices, what in the
hell are we here fOr?'
The meeting at st. Louis has demonstrated
what was already self-evident fact--that the
Grand Army Republic is an organization domi-
mated by and used in the interest of the repub-
lican party The futile and Fairchild combi-
nation has captured it, and will hold it. If IT
were established on patriotic basis as 1t should
be, If confederates were with union soldiers
punched together to protect a land and flag
which we all love against all corners. il it knew
no partisanShip but stood upon broad plat
form with its members as minute men of the
republic, then there could be no true citizen
who would not wish it God speed in its holy
mission. If the foot of foreign soldier, com
ing III warlike guise, should press the
soil of this land, the mon who followed
Lee and jackson and Kirby Smith would
be the first to hUr the intruder back into the
ocean. And every intelligent man in the north
knows this, and every union soldier who has
met these men knows they are foes not to be
despised. They and their sons, who cherish
the traditions of their bravery, are part of the
Grand Army of the Republic. They wear
their badges III their hearts, not on their coat
lapels, but they are none the less proud OF
their achievements and readyto duplicate them
when occasion offers. Against foreign enemy
the veterans of Fredericksburg and Cold Har-
Dor would emulate and surpaSs those who
overcome them at Gettysburg and Appomat-
tox. And the e. A. X. knows this very we'll
After the revolution the soldiers who had
fought and won-the ''rebels" who had over
come, in that instance, the '1oyal men went
back to their plows, and somewhat proudly or
ganized the society of the Cincinnati, named
after Cincinnatus whom they supposed them
selves to have resembled. Descended from
people who were all "rebels" in those days, as
their posterity were during the late
war, / naturally feel some pride
in my ancestry. L have heard
our grandmother tell of the indignities inhict-
ed by Tarleton and L lived to hear another
grandmother tell how she had been treated by
Fitzpatrick when Sherman sat down before At
lanta. The Two men were alike-they spared
neither infancy nor oldlage. Washington be
came convinced that the order OF the 'Cincin-
natl was dangerous to the country and had
IIincoln lived he would today occupy the same
attitude toward the q. A. X. 1t assumes to-
day to rule the country, but Mr.. Lincoln was
in favor of a government of the people, by the
people and for the people So am l.
FALCON.